Financial Contrast: LiveRamp (RAMP) vs. Its Competitors

LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) is one of 953 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare LiveRamp to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and valuation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of LiveRamp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.8% of shares of all “Software” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares LiveRamp and its competitors revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
LiveRamp	$812.94 million	$145.95 million	15.78
LiveRamp Competitors	$1.80 billion	$385.91 million	109.80

LiveRamp’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than LiveRamp. LiveRamp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

LiveRamp has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveRamp’s competitors have a beta of 1.15, suggesting that their average share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares LiveRamp and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
LiveRamp	18.71%	9.77%	7.41%
LiveRamp Competitors	-612.70%	20.86%	-8.99%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for LiveRamp and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
LiveRamp	0	6	2	0	2.25
LiveRamp Competitors	5729	21453	44745	1492	2.57

LiveRamp presently has a consensus price target of $38.08, suggesting a potential downside of 1.08%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 26.56%. Given LiveRamp’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LiveRamp has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Summary

LiveRamp competitors beat LiveRamp on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

LiveRamp Company Profile

LiveRamp Holdings, Inc., a technology company, operates a data collaboration platform in the United States, Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates LiveRamp Data Collaboration platform enables an organization to unify customer and prospect data to build a single view of the customer in a way that protects consumer privacy. Its platform supports various people-based marketing solutions, including data collaboration, activation, measurement and analytics, identity, and data marketplace. The company sells its solutions to enterprise marketers, agencies, marketing technology providers, publishers, and data providers in various industry verticals, such as financial, insurance and investment services, retail, automotive, telecommunications, high tech, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, travel, entertainment, and non-profit. The company was formerly known as Acxiom Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. in October 2018. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.